www.ScottBlackburnphoto.com

One of my favorite Mc's blessed Halifax with his presence a few weeks ago. The guy known primarily for his Simon Says song, rocked The Paragon with tour mates Slaughter House (whom I didn't stick around to see)

Love this photo , it looks as though hes ready to punch me in the face.

Proud as a peacock to say I got my first Coast cover today!

Went on assignment at a Sean Kingston show at the Forum, to get a crowd shot, which is weird because I'm usually so busy photographing the main event.

and it's the last issue of the decade.

Happy New Years!

For the third year running I've gone to what I might explain as a musical wonderland meets the best drunken shenanigans you've ever imagined.

This years NSMW was in Yarmouth and it was my first time experiencing it. It has a great small town feel to it. a few bars, a bunch of restaurants and a few thrift shops that made for some descent rummaging.

I can't quite recall what exactly happened because it's been two months since I went, but I do remember a few things.

- a stack of amps in the gloryhound room.
- late night/early morning swim on the last night.
- watching Andrew white murder a few guitar solos in a room full of peeps.
- Super group! late night stage!
- Dartmouth/Yarmouth, Dartmouth/Yarmouth, Dartmouth/Yarmouth, Dartmouth/Yarmouth, Rappi Pie!
- Crystal skull vodka
- Mern's
- caledonia room jam
- late late night room party in the Tom Fun Room
- Jagger machine in with SWT room
- stairwell smoke sessions
- A Jon Landry work out session reallly late at night or should I say early morn
- Where's my @#$%!@#% Camera?
- Matty saving the day!

While in Yarmouth I decided to do a little side project for the festivities and photograph people in Groucho Marx disguise, you know the ones with glasses, eyebrows, huge nose and stash, what started as a few people, slowly turned into a collection of 284 people within 212 photos. I got Plaskett, Matt Mays, Jimmy Flynn, Classified and pretty much every other person that was there.

Went to the Metro Center on assignment to photograph one of my favorite bands from the 90's, The Stone Temple Pilots otherwise known as STP. The three songs that I got to shoot were all awesome, they played Vasoline, Big Bang Baby and another one i didn't know. They let us stay for another song if we put our cameras away and they played Big Empty which I frikin' love. Light ing was great I'd say a 8 outta 10.

T-Pain hit up the Cunard Center a few months back.

The show was fantastically lit, and the opening acts were great too.

The most amazing part of the show was Mr.Pain, came out and I felt the bass rattling my lungs! it felt as though they were about to cave in. I've never felt that much bass.

I'm not really a fan of his music, but all in all, the first three songs that I saw from him were decent.

On a cold night in the North End of Halifax myself and the members of N.E.M.A.S. met a local watering hole and did adid a photoshoot for they're article in The Coast.

I did a shoot with the awesome lads of the wicked band Alright Already.
The shoot was for The Coast and the article can be viewed here
http://www.thecoast.ca/halifax/vocal-hero-sean-macgillivray-returns/Content?oid=1426358
More of my photos can be found here photos can be found here
http://scottblackburnphoto.com/

Ladies and Gentleman

The one and only Snoop D-O-Double-Gizzle performed live at the Halifax, Metro Center

Show was great til Daz, Sprayed a bottle of some fancy ghetto drink over the photogs. Don't worry none of our cameras got wrecked.

This pic was taken in the Dirty "D".

We tried to take a shot at the marine slips, but an old guy threatened us with a 300 dollar ticket.

The shot turned out great, wish I would have brought lights though.

Wicked show.

I think I was more excited for this then I was for Kiss.

The band played a great set. and I got a shirt to remember the show by!

I agree 100% with this fan sign!

Sidney Crosby's birthday/homecoming/stanley cup/Sam Roberts show aws excellent, have I mentioned how much I frikin love Sam Roberts?

Shot this for The Coast last week, They are an amazing live band and there CD release is tomorrow, go and check it out at Elephant and Castle!!!! Doors Open @ 10!

Cehck out some of their tracks here
http://www.myspace.com/threesheet

Got a chance to photograph K-OS on his "Karma" Tour.

The entire tour is a free show to all fans,and it had a bout 7 stops across the country. All he asks is that people pay what they feel the show was worth.

It's a great idea, but how the hell is he making any money?

Akil came through Halifax a month or two ago.

The performance was great but I can't believe how many peeps weren't there...This guys is kinda sorta a legend in Hip Hop.

I also saw DJ NUMARK a couple years ago....

It would amazing to see the whole J5 crew though...

I had the pleasure of shooting Rock Legends KISS, a few weeks ago.

This is my favorite shot form the set, but there are many more in the set too, check'm out and lemme know what you think

Went to see The Constantines http://www.myspace.com/constantines and The Weakerthans http://www.myspace.com/theweakerthans a few months back.

wanna see more? go here!

Well folks ECMA's were a blur.

To view photos from the weekend go here
http://www.flickr.com/photos/scott_m_blackburn/sets/72157614483585825/

and to view video on my Youtube Channel go here
http://www.youtube.com/scottyb902

Good times had on the rock for sure, we arrived on Thursday and didn't stop drinking till Monday when we left.

I got to go to a shit load of shows, and got to meet a lot for great peeps. I unfortunatley was too drunk to get up and photograph the town, becuase I was up till 8Am each morning.....
A few cool things I saw were, a bus shelter completely covered in snow.
- our window in our hotel room was our cooler for the weekend it was a like a freezer, because the snow was so high outside, we just opened the window and put beer in the snow!
- The ice sheets we were driving through on the ferry were stunning to look at.

My highlight for the weekend would have to be the New Brunswick stage at Whalen's Gate, I got to see Grand Theft Bus, Slate Pacific, Sleepless Nights, The Motorleague, and Share.

I got to see Het Rosetta four times and each time was better than the last, if you haven't heard of them.....You will soon

The award show was fantastic and was followed by an exceptional performance by PEI's Smothered in Hugs at the After Party.

The ride home was SHITE!!! The weather was awful and it was raining like i think I've ever seen before! Good job team Andrew Hunter & The Gatherers for getting me home alive!

Blackburn Out!

ECMA's in Corner Brook Newfoundland
http://www.ecma.ca/


I'll be leaving for Newfoundland in less than a week. I leave on Feb 25th and come home on March 3rd, I'll be traveling with friends of mine the band "Andrew Hunter and The Gatherers"who I just did a shoot for a few weeks ago.


Pretty stoked that I get to cover the festivities for The Coast.

I',m bringing with me; two amazing film cameras Yashica D Twin Reflex and an Olympus Trip Rangefinder. They will be my first two rolls of film shot.Should be a great time!I'll be posting a bit from Newfoundland. so stay tuned!

So the Coast sent me to shoot the slashfest show at Gus's Pub last weekend.

The show was an interesting experience for me, as I've never photographed at a metal show. I was the only person not wearing a black shirt, I only got moshed once; which was kinda nice.

The photo that was used was a shot of Hellacaust lead singer John Macdougall

http://www.flickr.com/photos/scott_m_blackburn/2830945362/

I'm stoked to say that I've had my 4th and 5th Coast assignments published this week. The fourth assignment was a live shot at the Incredible Picnic last Sunday. The shot used was Al Tuck, he was wicked good!


The fifth assignment was to shoot a band by the name of Thy Flesh Consumed, the guys in the band were totally awesome and we had a hoot shooting in the Rock Garden.